Wednesday, 11 September 2013

Review - Daddy-Long-Legs by Jean Webster

Jerusha Abbott grew up in an orphanage but was sent to college by a mysterious benefactor she calls Daddy-Long-Legs. In college she falls in love with a young man who wants to marry her, but she refuses because she is an orphan. Finally, after Jerusha--now Judy--graduates, she asks to meet her benefactor.

(Image and descriptions from Goodreads.com)

Really enjoyable! I tried to read this book when I was in
secondary school and it just didn’t click. But after watching the film (with
Fred Astaire ;)), the anime and listening to the musical – lovely musical by
the way – I decided to give it another shot.

I loved it.

Thumbs Up!

The whole book was wonderful fun and just what I needed at
the time. Judy is refreshingly honest about what she thinks of things and this
may seem silly but what I loved most was Judy being ‘friends’ with someone she
isn’t really all that fond of. I don’t know about you but I could definitely
relate to that.

The book covers a four year span of Judy’s life through
college all told in letters and I didn’t once get bored or want the writing to
change.

Thumbs Down!

The only thing I would have loved to have seen was a chapter
from Jarvis’ side of things – mainly to see what was going on in his head when
he made certain decision and what he thought about Judy’s reaction to them.

All in All!

A lovely story that as 187 pages is not all that long.
Definitely worth a read.

“The trouble with college is that you are expected to know
such a lot of things you’ve never learned”

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I am a pretty boring person when all is said and done. I am a 21 years old obsessive reader from Scotland. I love reading, writing, music and The Phantom of the Opera. Good job I discovered blogging or my brain may have exploded under the pressure of needing to blether about it all.